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SECOND HAND TO AFRICA
The Plymouth to Banjul Challenge
wanted to show that this can be done by everybody, not
“I just the big boys of the Dakar Rallye who have the backup
support of their own teams and a million dollar budget”, says
Julian Nowill, originator of the Plymouth Banjul Challenge, in the
Documentary “Second Hand to Africa”.
The rallye cars, worth just about 150 euros, have to last out for
more than 8000 kilometres before they are auctioned off for
charity in The Gambia.
Knackered old cars, no organisation, no support, adventures
galore.
Mines, sand storms, technical hitches, breakdowns …
This is not a race: those who reach the finishing line in Banjul
have won.
Filmmaker Sandra Krieger accompanies six participants from
Austria and the UK who thought that getting there would be
easier than it actually is.
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length
50 minutes
writer & director
christian stolz
sandra krieger
year
2008
producer
niki klingohr
executive producer
rudolf klingohr
format
HD
version
english and german
in production

documentary
Travel | Docu-soap
SECOND HAND TO AFRICA
The Plymouth to Banjul Challenge
In late December, filmmaker Sandra Krieger climbs into a four-wheel pickup, to accompany
Franz Xaver and Philip Schmid to Banjul, capital of The Gambia, 8000 km away from Vienna.
Xaver and Philip, one a not-about-to-arrive artist, the other a computer student, are participants
of the Plymouth-Banjul Challenge. Their vehicle: a 20-plus year old Opel Kadett.
There’s only one thing they can be sure about at their start in Vienna: they have to expect the
unexpected over the next three weeks.
Driving through Austria, Italy, France and Spain, they already encounter problems that those
two chaotic brothers have never dreamed about.
In Tarifa at the south-western tip of Spain, teams from all over Europe meet to celebrate New
Year’s Eve.
A day’s break, used to form into travelling groups. Xaver and Philip meet
Matthew (a 23 year old farmer from the UK) and Claire (a 32 year old shop owner, also from
the UK), in their old Mercedes. And Kristian (a 34 year old nursery man from the UK),
Tom (a 24 year old car salesman from the UK) and their Trabant.
On their journey through Africa, bonding occurs between our guys. Friendships grow, born
out of necessity: the organiser does provides no support, no servicing cars, no ambulance –
there are only the other participants to lend a helping hand when the going gets rough.
The route passes through colourful, oriental Morocco, the mined territories of Western
Sahara, the Mauritanian desert and Senegal.
Participants push on, bent on getting their cars to the charity auction in Banjul.
Tantrums, camp fires, a succession of breathtaking scenery, bent policemen, sand storms and
engine troubles combine into an exhilarating fairy tale.
One of the last adventures, open to more than 300 participants from all of Europe.
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HEINRICH MAYER
Interspot Film-Ges.m.b.H
A-1230 Vienna
phone: + 43 1 | 80 120-420
e-mail: mayer@interspot.at
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